Symbian Foundation recently issued its first open-source software program, which has made the whole Symbian mobile phone operating system, the first step in opening up.

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Symbian Foundation by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG and AT & T was established in June 2008, mainly to monitor Symbian OS as an open platform for the development process, the new platform will be Eclipse Public License (EPL) to authorize. Symbian OS is the Symbian Foundation had developed a proprietary software.

According to Symbian developer Craig Heath introduced, Symbian first authorized by the EPL the OS security procedures have been officially announced this week.

“OS security package’s source code is now available through the EPL acquisition, which is closed from the Symbian Foundation License (SFL) a formal transition to the EPL package first.” Heath wrote in the blog.

Heath said the EPL will be allowed to bypass security procedures, the provisions of the United Kingdom’s exports, Symbian code are protected by law in the United Kingdom.

“Software ‘in the public domain’ has immunity means that the open-source software from the export controls, it will be moved to EPL from the SFL is to ensure that we can obtain the full encryption of the most direct way,” he wrote.

This is also intended to demonstrate the open-source Symbian and safety is “serious.” In addition to the basic components and external drivers, Symbian Foundation will be open the next step of the core Symbian, Symbian, according to the general architect Daniel Rubio said.

“This requires from other components and drivers in order to complete the I / O bus interface of a co-operation – for example, a BSP (Board Support Package) to support the package, a hardware device and a disposable tool for random chain,” Rubio, in his blog mentioned. “The good news is that we are working hard to make this possible in the short term, I think it was three months.”

Accompanied by changes to the open-source, Symbian is some old software components into a new synthesis of the operating system, it will be named Symbian 2. The new OS based on Symbian OS version 9 and integration of S60, UIQ and MOAP user interface, plans for the next beta version of the test a few weeks and may occur in the first half of next year on hand-held devices.

In March this year, Symbian said that every six months they plan to issue a new version of OS, is expected to Symbian 3 will be released in the middle of this year. All Symbian market competition are the same variety of operating systems, including Apple’s iPhone OS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.